> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:02:03 +0000
> From: Dr Robert Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
>
> >> It further exacerbates Eliot's problem of wanting to support
> >> aliases based on existing usage.
> >
> > Au contraire.  It _solves_ Eliot's problem, because he can use
> > dc.creator (enhancing interoperability) while at the same time
> > making explicit that he is using "screator" in the specific and
> > somewhat different sense that GILS means it.
> >        dc.creator/gils.creator = azaroth
>
> I thought the problem was more that GILS already has 'record-source'
> whereas we want to call it something different.

Ah, that's Eliot's _other_ problem.

:-)

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